Issue 0x08 - 2000 & l8

💾 A monthly digest of text-based game development successes, failures, inspiration, and anecdotes from the members of The MUD Coders Guild.

Greetings, adventurers!

So… I missed an issue. For those of you who look forward to these letters, you have my deepest apologies :-(

It’s been a hell of a past few months, but rest assured things are getting back to normal around here and I am more driven than ever to keep growing this amazing community we’ve built! While this particular issue has to make up for the missed game jam announcements, I will also be changing up the format a little bit.

The past few issues were far too large, and I received some comments about email clients truncating them, so to mitigate this problem I’ve decided to put a much bigger emphasis on the content that is created by the members of The MUD Coders Guild, rather than just the content that is shared by them.

As always, if you have something you’d like to share with the community, please join us on Slack and shoot me a DM or post a message to the #newsletter channel. I love seeing what our community members can do!

TMCG mod @swiftausterity has recently announced a new MUD-oriented podcast project. In a nutshell, you share your stories, and they will be performed in the style of a classic radio drama. I dunno about you, but I’m personally incredibly excited about it!

TextSpaced is a Facebook Messenger based text-based game. The sandbox nature of the game leaves you, the player, the freedom to decide at any point what to do next. The narrative of TextSpaced unfolds organically, so you can choose to uncover the mysterious past of Old Earth, affiliate and forge relationships meeting both real and non-player characters - or simply pirate yourself to fame and fortune.

It’s EverQuest Day today at MMORPG.com and we have a pair of features that should bring a starry tear of remembrance to our readers’ eyes. In our second feature, we had the pleasure to sit down with Brad McQuaid to talk about the earliest days of EverQuest. It’s an exciting interview that you won’t want to miss. Read on!